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The National Theatre’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel is total theatre and
a total pleasure to see back on the West End stage. It closed in dramatic
circumstances last December after the ceiling fell in during a performance
two doors down at the Apollo theatre. It was already on its way to joining War
Horse, The History Boys and One Man, Two Guvnors as one of
the National’s biggest successes. Now Marianne Elliott’s masterpiece of
multimedia staging has returned in a bigger theatre. I mourned some loss of
intimacy early on, but after that I was exhilarated afresh by storytelling